Barbara Mikulski News

TV Washington plans a three-day tribute in its 11 p.m. newscast for Washington TV weather icon Bob Ryan, who is retiring.

NASA and Sally Ride Science are inviting journalists to tonight's "Sally Ride: A Lifetime of Accomplishment, A Champion of Science Literacy," a national tribute to America's first woman in space.

SALISBURY, Md. -- Whenever 87-year-old Charles Mowbray visits North Salisbury Elementary in Salisbury, Md., this World War II Navy sailor brings a boatload of stories -- like the one about how he helped rescue some men after a kamikaze attack.

FBI Director Robert Mueller told the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Justice Department the FBI would have no choice but to force unpaid leave, thereby putting the country at risk.

Thomas Perez, President Obama's nominee to be labor secretary, was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee on Thursday on a straight party line vote.

Two seemingly common-sense, bipartisan food reforms have gotten mugged on Capitol Hill in recent days.

At $642 billion, the Congressional Budget Office reports , the 2013 deficit will be lower by $200 billion than previously forecast.

The decision by America's IRS to reveal to a small room of tax lawyers last week that it had targeted conservative groups is now itself the subject of a Congressional inquiry.

Sen. Mike Johanns has sent a letter to Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski requesting that the committee hold a hearing concerning the recently revealed practices of the Internal Revenue Service targeting specific conservative groups.

Advocates of the Equal Rights Amendment were cheered Thursday when a bipartisan resolution was introduced by Sens.

Red, white and blue ribbon was cut and glasses of red and white wines were lifted to celebrate the official opening of the Antietam Highlands Wine Trail.

Food safety advocates are outraged over revelations that U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama approved an act that includes a provision purporting to strip federal courts of the ability to prevent the spread of genetically modified organisms .

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division recognized nearly 90 of its employees on May 1, 2013, at its annual Honorary Awards ceremony held at the Indian Head Pavilion.

Senate Appropriations Committee chair Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., urged Internal Revenue Service Acting Commissioner Steven T. Miller to do more to keep unscrupulous payroll service providers from cheating small businesses out of unremitted withholding taxes during an IRS budget hearing.

In the military there is a phrase unfit for publication in a family newspaper to describe how Congress has handled the sequester-induced furlough of air traffic controllers and the planned closure of small contract towers like the one at Frederick Municipal Airport.

Senators alarmed by a jump in sex crimes in the U.S. military called on Wednesday for a cultural overhaul of the Air Force and a lawmaker exposed a web page used by Marines that she said depicted a "culture of misogyny and sexual harassment." "I'm just fed up with this sexual assault stuff," Senator Barbara Mikulski told a hearing with top Air ... (more)

The Air Force officer charged in a sex assault case this week had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, received five non-combat medals and passed a review of his military records before he was selected to head a sexual assault prevention and response branch.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski is one of NASA's most powerful supporters as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, but a new report says she is worried that budget sequestration could cripple the Space Launch System being developed in Huntsville, AL., and possibly NASA's entire mission.

The National Security Agency this week formally broke ground on its second high-performance computing center, a 600,000 square-foot behemoth designed to help protect the nation's digital infrastructure.

Maryland's U.S. senators are confident that an assurance last week from U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood will mean that the 149 small airport control towers - including one at Frederick Municipal Airport - will remain open for the rest of the federal fiscal year.